Meet our second genus of Dragons – Ideologies. These are constellations of beliefs and values; filters for understanding the world.
One species of Ideology has flourished in the modern era: the Dragon of Technosalvation – A belief that technology can fix all our problems, and by extension, the climate.
Visit futureecologies.net/dragons to learn more about the Dragons of Inaction (including their names, descriptions, and phylogeny).
You can hear all of Scales of Change on its own dedicated podcast feed.
Guests: Robert Gifford, Kevin Caners, and Kate Moran
See also: YouTube video on explaining the Solid Carbon project
Music: Loam Zoku, Jack Hertz, Parallel Park, Blear Moon, Soda Lite, Pictures of the Floating World, Daniel Birch, and Sunfish Moon Light.
Other Recordings: Traveler, JustInvoke, gilly11, viertelnachvier, shelbyshark, SoundMarnus, Eelke, Carlos_Vaquero, soundslikewillem, lupums, squashy555, hisoul, deleted_user_7146007, bruce965, flood-mix, GirlWithSoundRecorder
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Kelemen, P., Benson, S. M., Pilorgé, H., Psarras, P., & Wilcox, J. (2019). An Overview of the Status and Challenges of CO2 Storage in Minerals and Geological Formations. Frontiers in Climate, 1. doi:10.3389/fclim.2019.00009
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Sax, S. (2019, December 18). Geoengineering's Gender Problem Could Put the Planet at Risk. Wired Magazine